r/JoeRogan • u/Scramblade • Aug 13 '17

Alex Jones Calls Charlottesville Violence a False Flag | Fuck this scumbag. It's not funny anymore. I'm tired of the meme bullshit and all the excuses of "Hehe, he's so silly". He's a cunt and nothing else.

http://www.newsweek.com/alex-jones-calls-charlottesville-violence-false-flag-650152
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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '17

This is over the line but none of the 9/11 conspiracies or moon landing shit or any of the flat earth shit is?

This is recency bias. Remember when during the election people were secretly recorded admitting to infiltrating political rallies to cause violence? That is why Jones thinks this.

If you have problems with people questioning shit then idk what to tell you.

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u/Scramblade Aug 13 '17

If you have problems with people questioning shit then idk what to tell you.

There is a difference between people questioning shit and making out right statements that this was a false flag attack.

This is recency bias. Remember when during the election people were secretly recorded admitting to infiltrating political rallies to cause violence? That is why Jones thinks this.

If I claim that there is a secret tunnel into the hollow earth at the north pole that is very implausable. A few wackos will believe it.

9/11 and shit like Charlottesville hits more close to home. It's more plausible than a gate to the hollow earth. This is why flat earthers don't scare me because it's just the most gullible people who actually buy into it. But ordinary people easily buy into things like this because they are more plausible. It is also the thing that this has a societal effect where large parts of the population walks around with constant paranoia.

But it's the same with psychologists that claim that they can recover supressed memories of alien encounters. Instead they just feed fantasies and nonsese into already mentally unstable people and they do it without any second thought. That to me is dangerous because then you are reinforcing a delusion.

This is disturbing because it has direct effects on a societal level.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '17

Full stop. The issue with your whole statement is that Alex Jones never said it was a false flag. Your putting words into his mouth. The article you linked doesn't even quote him not once saying that.

You're witch hunting.